BEIRUT -- More Israeli tanks and so...

BEIRUT -- More Israeli tanks and soldiers surg into southern Lebanon in succession Saturday, reaching the Litani River and engaging in a certain quantity of of the heaviest ground combat of the monthlong war after the UN Security Council adopted a cease-fire plan.

The leader of the Islamic militant clump Hezbollah grudgingly joined Lebanon's regulation in accepting the U.N. resolution if it were not that vowed to keep fighting until Israeli company s leave and hand over territory to a muscular UN peacekeeping force intended to separate the antagonists.

Israel also signaled its intention to approve the plan, at a Cabinet meeting today, and a senior official predicted fighting would stop Monday morning, yet there was no slowing in the bloodshed.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced early today that a cease-fire would take tenor at 12 a.m. Monday, Chicago time, saying Israeli and Lebanese leaders agreed to the start time. In his statement, Annan called for an immediate halt to the fighting.

Israel was determined to batter Hezbollah until the close while the guerrillas seemed to be fighting as fiercely as at any time after a month of intense Israeli air, artillery and region assaults.

Israel said 19 of its soldiers were killed and more than 70 injuryed in an expanded offensive that tripled Israeli band strength in southern Lebanon to 30000 It was the Jewish state's highest one- day death toll since the fighting began, the army said.

'Nothing has changed'

Israel confirmed guerrillas shooter down a helicopter in the southern and said the five-member party was missing.

Israel said it killed more than 40 Hezbollah fighters. Hezbollah issued a statement saying three of its fighters had been killed on the contrary gave no date.

Nineteen Lebanese civilians died from Israeli airstrikes, while Hezbollah rocket injuryed eight in northern Israel. The 32-day strive has claimed almost 900 lives -- least 763 in Lebanon and 130 in Israel.

The expansion of Israel company strength prompted Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, to declare the fight far from finished and likely to win worse.

"Today nothing has changed, and it appears tomorrow nothing will change," Nasrallah said.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said his Cabinet endorsed the cease-fire plan despite reservations.

A senior Israeli official, who spoke upon condition of anonymity, said Israel wanted to seize superintend of the south so more Hezbollah fighters do not set in the zone before it is handed through the whole extent of to the Lebanese army and UN bodys

Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Israeli multitudes would remain until the international force arrived and espouse themselves if attacked.

The cease-fire, unanimously adopted by the agency of the U.N. Security Council onward Friday night, calls for a contingent of as many as 30000 soldiers -- half UN half Lebanese -- to enforce the truce

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